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American Indian artifacts unearthed on former hospital grounds

Members of Cherokee, Creek tribes praised for dedication

Wild Rice Festival slated for next week

A Kansas University professor who is credited with opening up the world of American Indian literature and culture to thousands of students died Sunday.

An American Indian radio station that has been off the air for nearly five months has been awarded a $46,000 state grant to help repair its transmission tower.

Indian Summer: Sept. 8-10

Native American powow coming to city-Got a taste for buffalo?

A Native American Smudging Ceremony and Blessing will take place Wednesday afternoon at Northern State University

Newport Man Honored For Appointment To Abenaki Commission

Indian vets may get burial help

Oneida's latest venture is animation productions

There are two big American Indian events - the Trail of Tears Pow Wow on Saturday and Sunday (Sept. 9 and 10) in Hopkinsville, Ky.
TRAIL OF TEARS INTERTRIBAL INDIAN POW WOW, Trail of Tears Commemorative Park, Pembroke Road, Hopkinsville, Ky., also Sunday. Gates open at 10 a.m. each day. American Indian dancing, wood carving, bow making, open-fire cooking in pottery, singing, bead working, storytelling, Indian flute playing demonstrations, American Indian arts and crafts, food, refreshments and more (adults, $6; ages 6-12, $3; children younger than 6, free), and :
followed Sept. 22-24 by Native American Days at Angel Mounds in Evansville.
NATIVE AMERICAN DAYS, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m., Angel Mounds State Historic Site, also 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sept. 23 and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 24. The event includes a dance circle, demonstrations, Indian Market, children's area and concessions ($10 per vehicle). Call 853-3956.

Corvallis

Free symposium set about Native Americans

The public is invited to a three-day symposium Sept. 8-10 about the Kalapuya tribe in the Willamette Valley.

The free Kalapuya-Amin symposium features information about the current state of scientific knowledge regarding land management and resource-use technologies in Western Oregon in 1450 and 1750; demonstrations of uses of local plant and animal products, including weaving, plank splitting, cooking and woodcarving; and guided field trips featuring plant and animal species used in demonstrations and discussed in research papers.

The events are Friday and Sept. 9 at the William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge, 26208 Finley Refuge Road in Corvallis.

On Sept. 10, the symposium is at the Forestry Club Cabin at Peavy Arboretum of Oregon State University. From Salem, drive south on Highway 99W and turn right onto Peavy Arboretum Road. The entrance to the arboretum will be about three-fourths of a mile on the left.

Registration is required.

For more information, e-mail ZybachB@ORWW.org. to sign up

-- Beth Casper

Winfield, PA-- Cooper Cabin Homestead, 199 Cooper Road off Route 356, Cabot, will host a Native American Weekend from noon to 6:30 p.m. Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Events will include a traditional American Indian wedding at 6 p.m. Saturday, native dances, bands, crafts, food booths and more. Tickets are $4 for adults, $2 for children ages 5-17. Call 724-283-8116.

American Indian tribes to hold group Pow Wow
The 13th annual Grand Bois Inter-tribal Pow Wow will be held Sept. 15-17 at Grand Bois Park on Highway 24 in Bourg, LA. The event will feature Native American arts and crafts, traditional food and gourd dancing.
Traders are accepted by invitation only. All drums, lodges and princesses are asked to attend. For more information, call Ernest at (985) 594-7410.

Museum of New Mexico/Museum of Indian Arts & Culture
Current and Online Exhibitions

Institute of American Indian Arts Museum: "Relations: Indigenous Dialogue," group show by artists actively seeking to break stereotypes, through Sept. 30. 108 Cathedral Place, Santa Fe. Admission and hours: (505) 983-8900.

OCT. 5-6

Virginia Indian Symposium -- Williamsburg Hosted by Virginia's Indian tribes, the "400 Years of Survival" symposium will feature nationally known Native American speakers on topics such as sovereignty, federal recognition, health care, repatriation and education.

Antelope Hunting[1] – Cochiti

A Cochiti man went antelope hunting on the antelope plains. He took an antelope skin that almost covered him. When he came to the plains he put it on so that he looked just like an antelope. He saw them in a high place. He took a different direction and hid to see what direction they would take. When he saw that they were moving away he went closer. He stalked them. He kept his bow and arrow hidden under his antelope suit. They thought he was an antelope. When he got to the center of the herd he hurled his spear and the animal that was wounded ran off. He followed till the antelope fell exhausted. When he had plenty he went back to the spot where he had put on his suit and began to skin the antelopes. He killed all those that were not yet dead.

He stayed three days and took much game. He killed more than all the rest of the party. (The rest did not wear antelope disguise.) In this way he became a great antelope hunter. At last he went on a hunt. He had sighted antelopes on the plains and put on the antelope skin. He went to windward and came to a high place. While he stood waiting the eagle came flapping his wings. With his claws the eagle took the boy by his neck. His companions were watching. They went to help. When they got there, Eagle had the boy by the neck and his wings over the body. This was the end of the great antelope hunter. This is a true story.

Tales of the Cochiti Indians, by Ruth Benedict; U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin no. 98; US Government Printing Office; [1931] and is now in the public domain.

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Note on Zuni substance

Concept of the Sublime

Dorothy Dunn On Primitive Art
(Excerpt)Quoting Alice Corbin Henderson, Dunn states that in an Indian society, art is "possessed in common" and "totally lacking in individualistic concept." Thus, objectivity is enjoined with intentionality as personal accomplishment without a reference to the individual. This would satisfy a pedagogic sense of rationality in that in an Indian society "the surest way to make a prayer effective is to symbolize the matter prayed for" (Bandelier). If the prayer (the art of rhetoric) was effective, then it was handed down from generation to generation and its success justified its rationality.

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Bibliography of the Zuni Language

Indian Ledger Art-Resources and Information

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MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK: THE FIRST 100 YEARS

Fine Indian Jewelry: The Millicent Rogers Museum Collection

AEQ Book Review of Making Dictionaries: Preserving Indigenous Languages of the Americas .
Frawley, William, Kenneth C. Hill, and Pamela Munro, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 450 pp. ISBN 0520229967, $34.95.
© 2004 American Anthropological Association Book Review of Making Dictionaries: Preserving Indigenous Languages of the Americas .
Reviewed for the Anthropology & Education Quarterly by Catherine S. Fowler
University of Nevada
csfowler@unr.nevada.edu
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THE FOURTH WORLD
W. Tussinger has written his first novel which was released in December, 2004.
W. Tussinger is a member of the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma and has lived on several reservations including the Yuroks of Northern California and the Yakamas of Washington State where he attended college.
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THE WOMEN/Edward S. Curtis
by Christopher Cardozo; foreword by Louise Erdrich (Bulfinch Press, $35) — Cardozo, who lives in Minneapolis, is the world's foremost expert on, and collector of, photos of American Indians taken by turn-of-the-century photographer Edward S. Curtis. Cardozo went through 1,000 photos to find the 100 sepia-toned images in this book, which show the daily lives of American Indian women at a time when most were already on reservations. Minneapolis novelist and poet Erdrich discusses women's work in her foreword: " … although Edward Curtis believed that he was documenting a vanishing culture, it is in these humble arts that the strength of Native culture lives on."
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Literature on Native America

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American Indian Women's Activism in the 1960s and 1970s
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Literacy in first languages in indigenous communities is a complex topic that generates lively discussion. This research synthesis explores the notions of national, mother-tongue, multiple, and biliteracies. It presents important information pertaining to threatened languages, language shift, and language loss. Examples of culturally relevant uses of literacy in indigenous communities and issues related to first-language literacy instruction are also provided.

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